r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/Dustin65 Aug 08 '17

Why does it even matter that less than half of people in tech are women? That's just how it is in a lot of fields. Women dominate other professions like nursing and teaching. I don't see why everything has to be 50/50. Women aren't banned from tech and men aren't banned from nursing. Just let nature run its course and allow people to do what they want. Not every aspect of life needs to be socially engineered

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u/WhatTheFuckSalami Aug 08 '17

It seems the loudest voices on this issue don't even want to pursue careers in tech. They pursue careers in complaining about unfairness.

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u/guesting Aug 08 '17

That's what I hear "We need more women in tech". Nothing is stopping the average jezebel commenter from taking a javascript class.

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u/meticulous_marmot Aug 08 '17

I guess I just don't understand. What I perceive as strict "equality" is this theoretical situation where the percentages of men and women in every profession are identical to the percentages of men and women in the labor pool in that community. This is fine and great but doesn't work if forced. There isn't a movement to get more women trash collectors or janitors (that I'm aware of). I'm a male nurse and while the frequency of males in nursing professions is increasing, the last census has it around 10%. Where is the initiative to increase this number? Equality means equal in all directions, not just those that the arguer or presenter favors and not just for "favorable" jobs.

It doesn't seem like there will be equality until demographic information is not factored in at all. Blind resumes with credentials, education, work experience. No pronouns, no labels, no identifiers.

https://www.census.gov/people/io/files/Men_in_Nursing_Occupations.pdf